I've been absent from 8th grade for decades but I can
still remember the return-from-sumer-vacation "show & tell." I can
hear my teacher tell me to stand up straight. I can imagine how I might
tell the other little boys & girls as school starts about my summertime
constitutional collision with the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration
on board an ordinary Amtrak train in Albuquerque, New Mexico earlier this
week as I attempted to travel by train from Los Angeles to Chicago.

On Sunday, June 8, at 10:45 AM, at Union Station in
Los Angeles, I boarded Amtrak's Southwest Chief # 4, train car 413, seat
6 and, amazed that we departing on time, I anticipated that we would arrive
at Chicago's Union Station on time, on Wednesday at 3:20 PM. - text
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by Norman Horowitz

It was almost 30 years ago that I met a most unusual
man, Edward Lawson

When at times I naively consider how courageous I am
in speaking truth to powerI think about Ed, and how he as a black man has bravely
confronted the emissaries of the...